Mahi Kūkara Tā

 This week I created a task using google drawings.  This is the first time the tamariki are using google drawings.  I sent them the task through hapara.  Students are to create a shield of the things they love.  The idea was to empower love and kindness and also share a little about themselves.  The students were instructed to draw up their plan of their shield as a draft before working on google drawings. When they complete this task I will print them and display them on our wall, 'Ko Wai Au?'

  

He aha ngā kare ā-roto ka puta mai i a koe i te wā pāngarau?

 As a class we discussed results of the survery.  Using the group maths talk each child was able to share what they see on the screen.  Some tamariki said that they feel good about maths, and they feel confident in tau.  It was great to see that the students enjoyed the questionnaire and seemed to answer confidently and honestly.  When we went through the results they were more concerned about what they had chosen and who chose differently to them.

At the end of the activity I asked what they thought they wanted more of for pāngarau.  Some answers were whakarea; whakawehe; tango; tāpiri; rautaki.  I did remind them of the other fun side to pāngarau, which are the games we use to practice the mahi.  Then they all were excited and said that thats what they really wanted but said what they thought they had to say.

Heoi anō, ka whakamana anō te āhuatanga o te wā pāngarau, kia pakari ai ngā akoranga, me te ako kei waenganui i te tākaro.

I believe they are enjoying the group rules for talk as they seem to get more time to talk about things.

Most of the tamariki enjoy working with a friend and also resources, which what we have been working on to gain more understanding of the mahi pāngarau.

MPI 2: Know your learners as Mathematicians (2026)

Since teaching at kura, eight years, I have never been fully confident when teaching pāngarau.  It was not a subject I thought I was good at.  I have had massive support with my colleagues and resources here at Whakawātea during these years.  However I have always wanted pāngarau to be fun and challenging for the students in my classroom.  

Todays session has reminded me that I need to know and understand the pedagogy.  I need to know my students, where they are at, through assessment, and know what next.  My teaching knowledge and practice must be better to gain more confidence in my practice.  Unfortunately our kura do not assess through PAT.  

I also appreciated the resources and information about quick image and maths talk.  I am going to interact with the tasks and games before I present them to the tamariki.

I am going to try setting up the spreadsheet for the assessment, learning intentions and success criteria, so that it is all in one hub and I can track progress.  This will support a more purposeful planning, following the AKO HANGA TOHATOHA tikanga.  Planning different ways to create from the learning.  

This is one our tasks today. I need to understand more about the layout of the curriculum to work on this better.

Hopefully there will be a assessment tool that is in te reo Māori that can be implemented into kura coming with the refreshed curriculum resources. 🙏

Day 1: Mathematics is Core to Learning

 

Appreciate going over the five pillars of Mathematics Practice.  These next few weeks I want to observe through my daily practice areas of the five pillars that are evident and what I need to implement to improve my pāngarau programme.  I am interest to see what the students know about what they are learning in terms of pāngarau.  Thus I will use the pāngarau survey with the tamariki.

I also enjoyed the section of Maths Talk and will set up a plan to have more of that with my students.  Sharing their own ideas and opinions through Maths Image Talk.

Totally want to make maths to be fun and challenging in the classroom.

Mahi Pāngarau

 I tēnei tau kua tīmata ahau ngā mahi ā rōpū.  I whakatau ngā tūranga mō te mahitahi o ngā tamariki ki roto i ngā rōpū.  Arā he kaiwhakahaere, kaituhi, kaitiaki mō te wā, kaipūmanawa, me ngā kai kōrero.  I whakamahi tēnei mahi mā te mahitahi me te whakaako ngā tamariki katoa ki te kōrero me te tautoko i ngā akoranga katoa.  Mai tēnei mahi i whai wā nga tamariki ki te kōrero, whakaaro me te whakahaere.

I hoatu ahau he rapanga rerekē ki ia rōpū me te waiho rātou ki te kōrero me te whakamahi.

Toitū Te Tiriti

 I whakaako i ngā tikanga me te taenga mai o te Tiriti o Waitangi ki Nu Tīrani.  I whakarite he whakaaturanga o te āhuatanga o te Tiriti o Waitangi e te akomanga o Māhaki.  Ko te mea nui ka tū rangatira e te tamaiti me te whakaari atu ōna whakaaro e pā ana ki te hītori nei.  Nāku i hanga, nā rātou ngā tamariki i whakamana.  Whakamanatia, whakamanatia, whakamanatia te Tiriti e!  He wairua tau tō mātou tū.  He mahi whakaaturanga o te hītori, ā, he mahi hātakehi hoki.  Ko te haka te tū i puta te kare ā roto o rātou.  He tino pai te haka ki a rātou, ā, he mea mīharo ki a rātou.  Nā reira nā te haka hoki i whakamana i a rātou, ā, ō rātou akoranga o ngā āhuatanga o te wā o te Tiriti o Waitangi, i te tau 1840.  I hainatia ētahi rangatira Māori me ngā tauiwi nō Inarangi i te pepa e whakaae ana te tiakitanga o ngā tāonga tuku iho, ā, ngā tāonga o Nu Tīrani.  Nā ngā rangatira Māori me ō rātou iwi te tino rangatiratanga o Nū Tīrani.

Mahi Pānui Kahuku

Mahi Pānui

I whakarite e au he mahi pānui, kia ako ai e mātou i ngā kupu hōu o tētahi pukapuka.  Ko te pukapuka i pānui e mātou ko, 'Kahuku'.

I te tuatahi i whiriwhiri e au i ngā kupu hōu.  Kātahi ka kōrero tahi mātou e pā ana ki ngā kupu hōu.  He rawe te mahi ā rōpū.  He pai ngā kōrero i hua mai, arā, ngā kōrero o ngā tamariki.  I nana ahau te kukume i nga kōrero e pā ana ki ngā kiupu hōu.

I tuhi matou i ngā kupu ki runga i tētahi pepa nunui A2, katahi ka whakaaro e pā ana ki te whakamāramatanga.  I kōrero atu hoki ko te whārangi whakamutunga te āwhina o ngā kupu whakamārangatanga.

Kua whakatakoto e au he whārangi papa mahi e pā ana ki te pānui.  Kua whakatau tētahi papa mahi mā te pukapuka, 'Kahuku'.  E whai ake nei te papa i whakarite, engari kāore anō kia whakaatu ki te akomanga.  I whai noa iho i ahau.  I te whakaaro tonu e au me pēhea te whakahaere i tēnei mahi.  Ka waiho mā te wāhanga tuarua mā ētahi atu pukapuka mīharo, ā kaupapa rānei.

Whai muri i tēnei mahi i pānui e au te pukapuka, 'Kahuku'.  I āta pānui e au ngā kupu kia tika ai.  Kia rongo ai hoki e rātou ngā hua tika o te pānui.  I te wā i te pānui e au i waiho au ētahi pene whitau mā rātou te tuhi i ngā kupu hōu anō kia rātou, ā, ngā kupu uaua rānei i rongo e rātou.  I te mutunga i whakatau te tikanga o ngā kupu hōu katoa.  Arā i oti pai te mahi.

I te rangi whai muri i hanga e au he mahi toi e hono ana ki tēnei pūrākau.  I hanga e rātou tō rātou ake pūrerehua.  I hanga ēnei pūrerehua mā te māra kai ki waho.